P. Allen Smith encourages readers to discover their own world of garden color with these strategies in his “Colors for the Garden: Creating Compelling Color Themes”:
Look at your indoor colors in deciding what to select outdoors.
Reveal the best qualities of your house or conceal its worst.
Play off the natural palette surrounding your home.
Build your color theme around a dominant color found in a favorite plant, pot or bench.
Be open to new color possibilities – some happen by chance.
Other P. Allen Smith books:
In “Garden Home: Creating a Garden for Everyday Living” (Clarkson Potter, $29.95), he uses what's comfortable to us all – the house – to explain his signature concept, garden home, for blending interior and exterior spaces.
In “Container Gardens: 60 Container Recipes to Accent Your Garden” (Clarkson Potter, $32.50), he turns to another common denominator – cooking – using easy-to-follow recipes for planting pretty pots.
– NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
